as published on the SAPA website, page 3:
http://www.sapa.org/July2010SAPANewsletter.pdf
The New Horizon Research Award was established in 2007 by the SP Corps Research Committee to establish a perpetual award recognizing outstanding up and coming research SP Corps Officers for their contributions to research and/or clinical investigation as they start their careers as researchers. Selection for this award is given to an SP Corps Officer who has demonstrated accomplishments and contributions in the areas of research and clinical investigation for less than 5 years.
Major Amelia Duran-Stanton recently became the first PA selected for the SP Corps New Horizon Research Award during the Mary Lipscomb Hamrick Research Course in MAY 2010. She was selected based on several reasons. Three of her research projects were selected for poster presentation during the course and two of them were selected by the SP Corps Chief to be exhibited at the AMSUS conference. Major Duran-Stanton earned a PhD in Postsecondary and Adult Education through Capella University in 2008 and is currently an Army/Baylor DSc PA resident in orthopedics at the San Antonio Military Medical Center(SAMMC). She has also presented her research at the SAPA, AMSUS, SOMOS (Society of Military Orthopedic Surgeons) and BAMC Omer Day conferences. She established AKO websites for the Fort Bragg Medical Simulation Training Center and the Orthopedic PA residency program.In addition, she is currently collaborating with Orthopedic staff surgeons and assisting fellow DSc PA residents with their respective research projects.
Her published endeavors are regarding combat lifesavers, the female athlete triad, Freiberg infraction, simulation training, stress fractures, tarsal tunnel syndrome and tobacco cessation. She has several ongoing research projects regarding health literacy, JTTR (Joint Theater Trauma Registry) documentation,nonoperative treatment, Orthopedic trauma, periprosthetic fracture and tumor. Upon graduation in December 2010, she plans to expand her research efforts during her utilization tour, continue to mentor other up and coming researchers on their projects and collaborate with senior researchers.
MAJ John F. Detro
